Homemade Cinnamon Sugar Scones in 20 Minutes

A ridiculously simple way to make pastries fit for breakfast with your roommates or high tea with the Queen.

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It’s the weekend and time for breakfast, but your go-to cereal, toast and yogurt seems boring. That’s not going to get your roommate out of bed and in a good mood, so what to do? Buy them donuts? Waste a whole morning making pancakes? Attempt to flip a crêpe? Costs money; who has the time; and no way do I trust myself. You know what doesn’t require money, time, or skill? Scones.

The ingredients are pretty basic, it takes less than 20 minutes, and your end product is a gorgeously golden, jam/butter/Nutella delivery device. They look super fancy and taste even better.

When I made these, every time I went into the kitchen, another scone had been eaten by one of my roommates — clearly a crowd pleaser. And they don’t have to be limited to your breakfast time consumption, they’re also great as an afternoon snack — perhaps with some tea if you wanna be real fancy. So the next time Saturday comes around and you’re feeling bored by your breakfast options, set a timer for 20 minutes and by time it goes off, you’ll have delicious scones steaming on your plate.

Cinnamon Sugar Scones

Prep Time:8 minutes

Cook Time:12 minutes

Total Time:20 minutes

Servings:8 medium scones

Medium

Ingredients

2 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

8 tablespoon cold, unsalted butter

1/4 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup milk

Cinnamon

Sugar

Photo by Clarisse Callahan

Step 1

Heat oven to 425ºF.

Step 2

Add 2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt into large mixing bowl.

Step 3

Mix dry ingredients well.

Step 4

Cut butter into eighths and add to mix.

Step 5

Mix in butter using your fingers or a pastry blender until the mixture looks like fine granules.

Step 6

Add sugar.

Step 7

Add milk to mixture.

Step 8

Use a fork to stir mixture into a dough.

Step 9

Form dough into a ball, then sprinkle some flour onto counter and rollout dough ball into a circle.